Teal limit going up

[Top Dawg]

Texas is the reason out mottled duck limit went down to 1. Their mottled duck harvest went down so their limit went down as did ours. Seems more of their mottled ducks are now calling Louisiana home.

[Raymond]

Originally Posted by Top Dawg

Texas is the reason out mottled duck limit went down to 1. Their mottled duck harvest went down so their limit went down as did ours. Seems more of their mottled ducks are now calling Louisiana home.

Hurricane Ike in 2008 decimated the mottled duck population on the East Tx coast and TP&W asked for the limit to be decreased. FYI, Mottled ducks don't migrate; hence the name "Summer Mallard". While I disagree with the need to change the limit in Louisiana, it's really not a big deal in the grand scheme of things. My only concern with increasing the limit will be the increased number of wood ducks and mottle ducks that will be shot by hunters that can't identify birds in the first 30 min of shooting.

[SULPHITE]

Originally Posted by Raymond

Hurricane Ike in 2008 decimated the mottled duck population on the East Tx coast and TP&W asked for the limit to be decreased. FYI, Mottled ducks don't migrate; hence the name "Summer Mallard". While I disagree with the need to change the limit in Louisiana, it's really not a big deal in the grand scheme of things. My only concern with increasing the limit will be the increased number of wood ducks and mottle ducks that will be shot by hunters that can't identify birds in the first 30 min of shooting.

Year after Ike shot the crap out them mottles now not so much...they migrate west to east

[Top Dawg]

Originally Posted by SULPHITE

Year after Ike shot the crap out them mottles now not so much...they migrate west to east

Yea. Some people the limit change didn't affect. Some it did. In our case where we were hunting it did big time. We killed mainly mallards and mottled ducks. It was nice to be able to kill your 4 mallards and finish your limit with 2 mottleds beings there are no other ducks to fill your limit.